Posted on 05/28/2020 9:10:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
American universities may be next to feel the big chill in China-US relations as a group of US lawmakers are proposing a bill to ban mainland Chinese from studying science and technology in the United States, arguing they pose a threat to national security.
The two senators and one member of the House of Representatives on Wednesday said the Secure Campus Act would effectively bar Chinese nationals from receiving visas for graduate or postgraduate study in so-called STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields. Those from Taiwan and Hong Kong would be exempt.
“The Chinese Communist Party has long used American universities to conduct espionage on the United States,” said Senator Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, one of the sponsors of the bill and a critic of Beijing.
“What’s worse is that their efforts exploit gaps in current law. It’s time for that to end,” he said. “The Secure Campus Act will protect our national security and maintain the integrity of the American research enterprise.”
The proposed legislation comes as diplomatic relations have fractured between the world’s two largest economies. The fissures started to show during a trade war that has been rumbling on for almost two years and have only widened amid accusations about the handling of the Covid-19 disease outbreak, and the treatment of ethnic minority groups in China.
Hong Kong is the latest flashpoint after Beijing drew up a national security law that Washington says tramples on the city’s mini-constitution. The US threatened retaliation over the move.
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There. Fixed it.
Way past due.
This is a propaganda newspaper from China. But I hope they are right. We have more Chinese students than from any other country. Many are from the rich and powerful government families. These are not poor kids caught in the middle. They are CCP loyalists or members of their families. We don’t need or want them hear. They are bribes to American schools. And they are learning stem skills to bring back to China. Our schools need to live without Chinese students.
They can virtual school.
“....Many are from the rich and powerful government families. These are not poor kids caught in the middle. They are CCP loyalists or members of their families. …..”
Looking at them as individual students they wouldn’t be here if the CCP had any reason to think they weren’t “sound”.
Good, it is way past time to freeze out their spies. Better late than never.
Let that same idea apply to other foreign nationals that are not our allies. Why should we be training them & cutting our own throats? It’s probably a good deal for the universities, but I doubt that their staff is on the front lines if we need to go to war with any of these countries. They should be because they are the ones who educated them. I’m also considering this in regards to allowing flight training for foreign nationals. It’s past time when we closed many of the gates into our country when these people are using it against us.
“Let that same idea apply to other foreign nationals that are not our allies.”
Agreed.
Americans first.
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